Junior Data Engineer

TL;DR

Junior Data Engineer: Contributing to building and evolving hirify.global’s data ingestion platform with an accent on data pipelines and data governance. Focus on supporting and extending CI/CD workflows, improving observability and documentation across the data platform.

Location: Hybrid, including at least 12 monthly in-office days in Warsaw, Poland.

Company

hirify.global is one of the fastest-growing tech companies in Europe and Africa, with over 200 million customers in 50+ countries.

What you will do

• Build and maintain data ingestion pipelines using Spark, Kafka, and change-data-capture.
• Contribute to frameworks that improve observability of data usage within the storage layer.
• Collaborate with software engineers, SRE, DBRE, analysts, and analytics engineers to understand their workflows and reduce friction in building and maintaining data products.
• Support and extend CI/CD workflows with GitHub Actions to validate, test, and deploy data products reliably.
• Help improve observability, documentation, and overall developer experience across the data platform.

Requirements

• 1-2 years of experience as a software or data engineer (including internships, academic or personal projects) with hands-on exposure to data pipelines or analytics workloads in cloud environments.
• Basic proficiency with Spark and can read and write Spark jobs (Scala or equivalent).
• Foundational understanding of data engineering concepts, including change data capture, Kafka, and data governance.
• Strong communication skills, fluent in spoken and written English.
• Understand modern CI/CD practices and value automation, testing, and observability as core engineering principles.

Culture & Benefits

• Accelerate professional growth with unique career opportunities.
• Enjoy a rewarding salary and stock options.
• Take care of physical and mental health with wellness perks.
• Balance flexibility and in-person collaboration with our hybrid model, including at least 12 monthly in-office days.